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HexaSnoot [none/use name]

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  • In hippy-ish baby boomer and millennial circles, portraits of hindu figures can be common. I would see them on random people's social media pages after they got into psychedelics. When I was a kid, I overheard the beginning of two adults, who just met, discussing their own seperate trips to India. I didnt hear beyond a few sentences since I minded my own business and left.

    This all gives me the impression that interest in India is common. Idk if many foreigners to India actually travel to India. Perhaps I'm wrong.

  • Oh okay, I'll just say appropriation.

  • Hinduism, with is a faith practice that attempts to amalgamate myriad traditions into a singular whole that reifies a singular ruling elite and was typically practiced by the upper caste, but Buddhism, which came as a response to Hindu elitism or local animistic/ancestral faith practices and of course areas of Islam sprinkled throughout.

    Was Bhuddism was originally rejection of casts and to express equality of worth? One legend I heard about Bhudda was how he was displeased and unsatisfied with a sheltered royal life and a endless bounty of any material good he could ask his dad for. So he ran away, slept under trees, and starved because he rather be among those who were once his subjects than live a life with next to no human connection.

  • I heard Israeli soldiers sometimes vacation in India and listen to trance while taking ecstacy. Is that whitewashing in any way?

    You may be right, I'm not confident in using the term whitewashing. I more reserve it for visual examples, like American football fans wearing Native American feather headresses at games with colors of their team painted on their face.

    When it comes to actions, I don't have many examples... I feel that if you go into the process of spiritual self work in a space where you're a guest, and corrupt it with a white colonial attitude, that is whitewashing.

  • hindivatu nationalism

    What is hindivatu?

  • I feel that everyday. I love people but am anxious about making efforts to connect.

    Edit: I got in contact with a friend after last talking to them years ago. Turns out they're studying Chinese medicine now. I offered a listening ear if they ever want to talk about their favorite medicines. They offered to talk about remedies if i ever need one. I wonder how to spin this into a new convo. (Edit: Advice would be nice.)

    They have tons of friends to pay attention to and I don't, so i will need to be the one to catch their attention.

  • What might you say to this guy? He's genuinely very funny otherwise while I'm not as funny. I'm worried that in his eyes, all the cheery reactions to his racist joke will outshine anything I have to say. I'm still kinda speechless about it. He'd have to watch the video I think.

  • They might not be if he watches the video.

  • But yea that's very 😬

    Him doing that, or what I've thought to say so far? I'm not sure how to finish the last sentence I've thought to send. I just know he's making fun of black people, but how could i politely convince him of that without making it seem like nagging? And in a way where he'll be more certain to watch the video so he doesn't just think I'm being too sensitive? The video would carry my whole argument he's doing something wrong. My anxiety makes it so having to explain any of the video would be too overwhelming to me.

  • Oh yeah i definitely relate. Some kid sang it with the hard r as a joke.

    Anyways, how could I tell this one other white guy why starting to say the N word as an adult isn't okay?

    I found this video essay involving modern blackfacing and minstrel shows called The Evolution of the Culture Vulture interesting. Some white guy i know started saying the n word ending with an "a" as a joke when almost 30 years old. I only see him once every several years and idk if I should send him this video. We dont talk in between those years. He's mostly associated with my boyfriend, and they can go over a year without talking. If I end up doing that I would say "Even though I think its not okay you're specifically doing an exact thing in this video, I still appreciate your intent and your great quality of trying to create good vibes however you can. This does not mean at all that I'd disown you as a friend. Its just to say take a step back and examine what youre doing when you..." Idk i can't think of how to discuss this with him so here I am.

    He's a busy guy, he may never watch the video. I have social anxiety too so I may never send anything. I just want to know how to carry out a convo about this and still want advice anyways. That shit really bothered me and I couldn't place why until seeing the video.

    Sone context: I'm not black and don't live in the black experience.

  • Why is "c-ds" more offensive than "c-d people"? To me, both sound equally crazy to hear.

  • Both ways sound highly offensive when explained this way. Grateful I followed my gut and avoid it.

  • Android

  • Why do some Asian people call Asian things oriental, but white people do it "wrong?" I understand none of it so I just steer clear of the word.

  • That stops my last best visualization, which was reminding myself it's all a puppetshow. Your visual is completely static, still, and lifeless, and I think I like it better.

  • I like the creativity here.

    Do you have a preference of which form of tiny corn you like best? I've only seen them in a can, but I'm sure you can buy them in other ways at local Asian grocery stores.

  • Do yall musicians just know wjat something sounds like by reading music notes?

  • The "maintains and shapes + shapes and maintains" part is confusing me. I think it's just saying the step from one to another can go both ways, right?